An interesting and a formidable idea. Great video footage of that band would be great. I'd like to see how FZ et al operate Synclavier onstage (a la "Yuppies Go To Hell")!

He was like a little kid playing with a toy. It was heartwarming. It really amused him. He'd look out at the audience as if to seek approval. "Look at what I did!" At least that was my impression at the one NY Beacon show I attended (scalped a ticket for 20 bucks. 6th row right orch on the aisle)

Yes, great idea.
How about the 1988 Barcelona Concert, that was taped from start to finish, if i am not mistaking.

Would be one hell of a birthday-present when i turn 25 in 2008

_________________Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

My favourite video footage from the 88 tour is from the rehearsals on Feb. 14, 1988 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. Among other things (Sleep Dirt !) you can see FZ toying with the synclavier. Great stuff !

My favourite video footage from the 88 tour is from the rehearsals on Feb. 14, 1988 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. Among other things (Sleep Dirt !) you can see FZ toying with the synclavier. Great stuff !

The rehearsals could be at the begining of the dvd as intro to any show or shows...who knows. Better, now should be a double dvd I think... Because they must have enough material for that... & more... if not look at the MOFO´s & that happened forty years ago...

After the shows some special footage, interviews at that time & now to the whole rest of living musicians, fans, venues, photos, Keneally´s diary updated, synclavier directions for use... ... you know pretty good stuff...

_________________"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mother, your Dad, your priest, to some guy on television, to any of the people telling you how to do your shit, then you DESERVE it."

I threw 2 fly swatters up to Frank Zappa at the Milan gig, as none of the Italians in Milan bothered to remember their history of the 1981 riot ( Tamburini cover Utopia)

FZ was really pleased, as he understood the reference and gave me a reassuring thumbs up, as the caribinieri started to pummel me to the ground.

He used them through the rest of the tour when he wanted to swish something around. I distinctly remember that nights 'Advance Romance' had plenty of improv references to swatters, and swattys as a result.

I hope someone has a recording of the remainder of the gigs to establish my point.

I do recall he conducted with the swatters. A very proud moment for me.

I threw 2 fly swatters up to Frank Zappa at the Milan gig, as none of the Italians in Milan bothered to remember their history of the 1981 riot ( Tamburini cover Utopia)

FZ was really pleased, as he understood the reference and gave me a reassuring thumbs up, as the caribinieri started to pummel me to the ground.

He used them through the rest of the tour when he wanted to swish something around. I distinctly remember that nights 'Advance Romance' had plenty of improv references to swatters, and swattys as a result.

I hope someone has a recording of the remainder of the gigs to establish my point.

I do recall he conducted with the swatters. A very proud moment for me.

9 June 1988PalasportGenova, Italy 135 min, Aud, B The very last concert of the very last Frank Zappa tour...The Black Page #2, I Ain't Got No Heart, Love Of My Life, Marque-Son's Chicken, Elvis Has Just Left The Building, Cruising For Burgers, Who Needs The Peace Corps?/I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Outside Now, Dupree's Paradise, Find Her Finer, Big Swifty, Rhymin' Man, Sinister Footwear, City Of Tiny Lites, The Torture Never Stops/Lonesome Cowboy Nando, Bolero, Whippin' Post, I Am The Walrus, The Illinois Enema Bandit

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